Telegraf, InfluxDB and Grafana on Armbian (OrangePi )

InfluxDB and Grafana

Here we will describe how to install Telegraf, InfluxDB, and Grafana on an Orange Pi computer running Armbian.

InfluxData  provides a suite of applications supporting Data collection (Telegraf), Time series Data storage, (InfluxDB) Data processing and alerting (Kapacitor), and Visualization (Chronograf)

Armbian supports installation of Debian and Ubuntu images for installation on a number of ARM based computers. For example Orange Pi, Banana Pi and a number of other similar devices.
The installation procedure below

Grafana is a Dashboard that can receive data from InfluxDB as well as other sources as Graphite and present it as graphs.

Typically Telegraf, Grafana and InfluxDB are installed on one computer. For other computers that are to be monitored only, only Telegraf installation is needed.

InfluxDB from Debian Repo

InfluxDB suppports a Debian repository including an armhf  package. A slightly modified procedure is shown below.

curl -sL https://repos.influxdata.com/influxdb.key | sudo apt-key add -

source /etc/os-release

test $VERSION_ID = "7" && sudo echo "deb https://repos.influxdata.com/debian wheezy stable" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/influxdb.list

test $VERSION_ID = "8" && sudo echo "deb https://repos.influxdata.com/debian jessie stable" | sudo  tee  /etc/apt/sources.list.d/influxdb.list

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install influxdb telegraf

Grafana

It seems there is no Debian repository of  Grafana in Wheezy or Jessie. There is however support in 'stretch', the new Debian version.

sudo echo "deb https://repos.influxdata.com/debian stretch main  contrib non-free" | sudo  tee  /etc/apt/sources.list.d/grafana.list

sudo apt-get install grafana

Verification

Check that these are "active running":

sudo systemctl status influxdb.service

sudo systemctl status telegraf.service

sudo systemctl status grafana.service

These are my installed versions

anders@orangepi1:~$ dpkg -l | egrep -e "influx|telegraf|grafana"
ii  grafana             2.6.0+dfsg-3   armhf   feature rich metrics dashboard and graph editor
ii  grafana-data    2.6.0+dfsg-3    all       feature rich metrics dashboard and graph editor - data files
ii  influxdb           0.13.0-1      armhf     Distributed time-series database.

ii  telegraf            0.13.1-1       armhf   Plugin-driven server agent for reporting metrics into InfluxDB.

Configuration

Configuration is mostly left as an exercise for the reader. There ares several guides out there. 

Telegraf should be sufficiently configured by using the default configuration. When connfiguring on the monitored computer, change InfluxDB configuration from localhost to the remote IP or name of the computer on which InfluxDB is installed.

 vi /etc/telegraf/telegraf.conf 

InfluxDB configuration should be satisfactory wirh the default for many cases

vi /etc/influxdb/influxdb.conf

Grafana is available using a browser at port 3000:
e.g http://orangepi1:3000/

Add InfluxDB as Datasource